Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth peace, good will to men. ..." and secretly treasure their memories of warmth, love and good cheer. Hundreds of fighting ships would have Christmas trees, flown west from Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nimitz would be visited by a Seabee Santa Claus. Soldiers slogging up Highway 65, near the Fifth Army's Italian front, would see a huge Merry Christmas sign, and a fog-shrouded Apennine pine decorated with 400 colored lights. G.I.s would have Christmas parties for children in France, England, Italy, Iceland, the Philippines; and each father could seek out children the same age as his own, and play...
...Fifth Army, in positions at right angle to the British, held quiet. The Fifth was waiting for its new commander, rasp-voiced Texan Lieut. General Lucian King Truscott Jr., who last week succeeded Lieut. General Mark Clark, now commander of the Allied armies in Italy. But a new commander would not necessarily mean a swift drive to the north. Mark Clark's armies were short of men; the Allied push, and almost all of its European pushing power, was in France...
...that artificial insemination, with a few great bulls fathering most of the nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...
...figures indicated a 150 percent increase over the Fifth War Loan, which ended last July. House totals for the spring drive were just over...
Debt Played When Wing Commander John Wooldridge shot down his fifth German plane, the next move was up to Conductor Artur Rodzinski. The New York Philharmonic's genial maestro had made a promise: to give the 33-year-old R.A.F. flyer's new symphony, which he showed Rodzinski last spring, one performance for every five enemy planes bagged (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week the bargain was fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that...